Archiving and preservation for research environments

ARCHIVER Pilot Phase Kick-off Event

On the 13th of October ARCHIVER Prototype phase officially ended with the closure of the application for the third and last Pilot phase.

Between December 2020 and August 2021 the three consortia selected to continue the Prototype Implementation worked to build their prototypes, including all components, and make them accessible to the Buyers Group for basic functionality tests.

The selection process for proceeding to the next phase is now over.

The successful contractors entitled to continue with the Pilot implementation were announced on a Public Award Ceremony that took place Virtually on Monday 29th November - 14:30-17:00 CET

Pilot Phase Public Award Ceremony Moderator: Sara Pittonet Gaiarin (TRUST-IT)
14:30 - 14:40	Welcome from Sergey Yakubov, DESY
14:40 - 15:00	ARCHIVER Project overview - João Fernandes, CERN and ARCHIVER Coordinator
15:00 - 15:40	Expected outcomes of the Pilot Phase - Buyers Group representatives from CERN, DESY, EMBL-EBI, PIC

15:40 - 15:50	Break
Award ceremony
15:50 - 16:20	Presentation from Winning Consortium 1: Arkivum and Google Cloud

16:20 - 16:50	Presentation from Winning Consortium 2: LIBNOVA, CSIC, University of Barcelona, Giaretta Associates, AWS, Voxility and Bidaidea

16:50 - 17:00	Closing remarks - Sergey Yakubov, DESY